John Polkinghorne Quotes
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I never took to Hollywood.
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I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.
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It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.
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I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
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Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
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The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
